Un singe en hiver (1962)
- Directed by
- Henri Verneuil
- Genre
- drama film, comedy drama
- Country
- France
- Runtime
- 1h 45m
- Rated
- 16
- Rating
- 7.5 of 10 from 235 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
An aging hotel keeper in a quiet Normandy seaside town reminisces about his adventurous past in China. He meets a younger advertising executive who copes with his own disappointments by adopting a flamboyant macho persona. Their brief friendship offers each a temporary escape from their unfulfilling lives.
nostalgicmelancholicwistfuldrunkenbittersweetslow-pacedcharacter-drivenpoignant
What happens
A Monkey in Winter (French: Un singe en hiver) is a 1962 French comedy-drama film directed by Henri Verneuil. It is based on the novel A Monkey in Winter by Antoine Blondin. Set in a Normandy seaside town, it recounts the meeting and parting of two men at odds with life, one an old hotel keeper who dreams of dashing deeds in pre-war China and the other a young advertising executive who imagines he is an incarnation of Hispanic masculinity. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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